Rewind with Mike Trash of The Erotics.

We brought you a 20 Questions with Mike Trash a few years ago. Now he’s back with another new disc and a return trip to the UK. This guy won’t go away, even though he might have tried to. He’s nearly off’ed himself

inadvertently with massive quantities of alcohol – more than once. And he’s still here. Mike Trash is like a cock roach with herpes.

If you don’t know anything about The Erotics you might want to check them out. Imagine if you put Joey Ramone into a blender with Nikki Sixx. Then add an 8-ball of coccaine, a case of beer, and subtract the huge success and you get Mike Trash & The Erotics.

For the record, no one is riding Mike Trash’s nut sack, but we can acknowledge a true solider of rock n’ roll when we see one. With no further babble, here is Mike Trash & his rewind.

Well, we just released another new cd called "Rubbish" on the UK label Trash*Pit, follow up to last years "30 Seconds Over You". We have an upcoming tour in the UK in April. It will be out 4th. time over there, we may be doing a bunch of US dates this summer as well.

You can get our stuff via our website www.eroticrocknroll.com or @ Cd Baby, Amazon.com etc. And it’s available @ all the digital places like iTunes, Rhapsody, and a bunch of other places like that.

We’re also @ myspace as well, www.myspace.com/theerotics

2. Your history in music is over 2 solid decades and your still at it. Give us your motivation and reason to still make music, tour, etc..?

3. Going backwards, Lethal Lipstick became Lethal Boyz and guys in the band had names like Billy Lixx & Gary Grafixx. Aside from being signed to an affiliate of MCA (Musicians Cemetery of America) with Maze Records in 1991, what do you think went wrong? And looking back do you think too many X’s and Z’s in the aforementioned names could have caused the death of LL?

Yeah, LL made the brilliant move to change it to Lethal Boyz, to come across as "less glam"

Well, too many X’s and Z’s + 1991 = DEATH!!!!

4. You covered an AC/DC song on this latest release “Rubbish”. It seems to have become a pattern for you on the last couple releases including a W.A.S.P. tune. Any other covers in the future that you’d like to remake?

Yeah, we do a pretty kiss-ass version of "Walk All Over You" on the new album. There’s actually an Eagles tune I’d like to remake someday!!!

Mike Trash & The Erotics – CrueFest New York.

5. Since you sing and play – this time you get the Rate a guitarist/singer and bassist/singer 1-10. You know how this works. We’ll also throw in the singer who picks up the axe for a song or two during their set. You should give 2 scores. Example: a 8 for singing and a 8 for guitar playing.

Petted more dogs or punched more faces = Well I’m a dog lover. But I prefer bitch slapping over punching, it’s more disrespectful:)

Had more girl friends or Had more STD’s = Only got an STD once, back in 1990.

Had more band members or Signed more indy deals = I get an indy deal per band member.

10. If you could smash your guitar off any Rock Stars face, who would it be and why?

John Mayer, first he’s "Dave Matthews’ Light" now he decides he wants to be a "guitar hero" and course the media and sheoples buy right into it.

Drink, Fight & Fuck Tonight.

11. Your faced with a tough decision. You are about to have your arms cut off at the shoulder and your ball bag ripped off clean. That is, unless you join Firehouse, perm your hair, and do acoustic set’s featuring a 10 minute version of “Love of a Lifetime” nightly for the next 2 years. What do you do?

13. Tell us about your most unlucky nite out on the town with the band?

I guess one time in Boston a few years back, my band left me at the venue, they thought I hooked up w/someone. But I was still at the venue, so I had to take a train back to Albany, with the merch box.

Let’s just say, I had every right to keep ALL the money we made that night.

On tour in Nottingham England

14. Let’s go on tour with Mike Trash. Name some cities, what year, and what it was like?

Let’s put it this way, if I were to write a book , it would make the "The Dirt" look like fucking Seasame Street!!!

I almost died TWICE due to alchohol comsumption ala Bon Scott, even as recent as July 2007, when I almost drowed while drinking Tequila in a swimming pool @ a hotel.

15. What current band would you like to see fall from grace the fastest and why?

The easy predictable choice,, would be to say NickelBack, But yeah, NickelBack.

Just something about them that is just so, very, very, very WRONG!!!!

16. Who would win in a battle royal and why?

Team # 1 is Phil’s LA Guns, Skid Row w/ Solinger & the Jani Lane band. W/ Obi Steinman as the Team manager in the corner with a bull horn and silk suit on.

Team #2 is Traci’s LA Guns, Sebastian Bach’s band & Warrant w/ Robert Mason. W/ Maria Bach (Baz’s wife) as the team manager in the corner wearing a bikini.

I can’t get the visual of Maria Bach in a bikini out of my heard, so team #2 wins, never mind the scenarios.

17. Since we last talked a few things went down, give us your thoughts on.

Motley Crue “Saints of Los Angeles” = Really only heard the title track which I like, the rest of album, is hit or miss. Would have been way better if I co-wrote the songs.

This Day in Sludge History

Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar live on stage for the first time when he was appearing at The Astoria in London, England. It was the first night of a 24-date tour. The Fender Stratocaster burned on stage by Hendrix sold for £280,000 (British pounds) at a 2008 London auction of rock memorabilia. (1967)

Def Leppard released their fifth studio album 'Adrenalize', the first by the band following the 1991 death of guitarist Steve Clark. Former Dio and Whitesnake guitarist Vivian Campbell, was brought in as the newest member. (1992)

Born on this day, Mick Ralphs, guitarist, Mott The Hoople (1948) and Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist with AC/DC (1955),